LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| PAGE | |
|---|---|
| 'MAKE OUT THIS, WILL YOU? WE ARE ALL FRIENDS HERE' | [Frontispiece] |
| SUDDENLY HOLWOOD STOOPED AND PRESSED HIS LIPS TO HER BROW | [59] |
| WINEFRED HAD TAKEN THE LANTERN, AND HELD IT SO AS TO ASSIST HIM | [84] |
| JANE MARLEY HAD THRUST HER WAY TO THE FRONT AND WAS NEAR THE AUCTIONEER | [139] |
| MR. HOLWOOD APPROACHED THE CHAIR AND INTRODUCED HIMSELF | [218] |
| SHE WAS CLASPED IN THE ARMS OF THIS GIRL, HER BURNING CHEEKS WERE KISSED | [246] |
| IN A MOMENT SHE WAS IN HIS ARMS, AND THE CAGE AND THE BIRDS HAD FALLEN | [262] |
| SHE WAS REMOVING THIS CASE TO DROP IT WHERE THE GOLD HAD FALLEN, WHEN HER ARMS WERE GRASPED FROM BEHIND | [297] |
WINEFRED:
A STORY OF THE CHALK CLIFFS
CHAPTER I
HOMELESS
One grey, uncertain afternoon in November, when the vapour-laden skies were without a rent, and the trailing clouds, without a fringe, were passing imperceptibly into drizzle, that thickened with coming night, when the land was colourless, and the earth oozed beneath the tread, and the sullen sea was as lead—on such a day, at such a time of day, a woman wandered through Seaton, then a disregarded hamlet by the mouth of the Axe, picking up a precarious existence by being visited in the summer by bathers.
The woman drew her daughter about with her. Both were wet and bedraggled.